At the Illinois Parks and Recreation Association Soaring to New Heights 2026 Conference, a session on strategic planning drew strong interest from park district professionals...
Three NIU Faculty Publish Case Study of Community Engagement and Promotion and Tenure Policies We’re thrilled to celebrate three of NIU’s community-engaged faculty who...
Part one: an interview with Assistant Professor Alexios Rosario-Moore, Ph.D. Community engagement is central to NIU’s mission as a regional public university. An NIU faculty...
January 28 is Global Community Engagement Day – a day when people across the globe celebrate community efforts to work together to make the world...
What does community engagement look like? For NIU Professor of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment Pi-Sui Hsu, it means partnering with middle school teachers in...
What does community engagement look like? For NIU Philosophy Professor Mylan Engel, the community is the classroom. His students learn philosophy by doing. They plant,...
What does community engagement look like? For NIU Professor of Biology Barrie Bode, it means using the knowledge gained from laboratory research to fight cancer...
What does community engagement look like? For Professor of Dance Paula Frasz, it looks like designing dances that mirror her students, their experiences and the...
What does engagement look like? For NIU Anthropology Professor Mitchell Irwin, community engagement permanently shifted his perspective about the purpose of research and the role...